When the US-backed Radio London arrived off the coast of England, there was an unsuccessful attempt to merge its sales operation with that of Caroline before Radio London started transmissions. While 6 Music saw a 3.1 per cent dip in its quarter-on-quarter listening figures - pulling in 2.6million listeners - the station is still the UK's number one digital radio station. From the Radio Today site. I always tried to get the best quality out of my car radio, while listening to the station and I always felt fed up when Caroline was off the air again, forcing me to tune in to the sound of Hilversum 3 the then so-called public pop station in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Radio Mi Amigo had interference on 1562kHz and changed to 1412kHz (212 m). 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe.
BBC Radio has major problems, with audiences following Chris Evans out Zoe Ball, Greg James, Roman Kemp, Chris Evans and the Today programme are among the shows to have fewer listeners than the last time ratings were measured. To keep it this way they have had to steer clear of big investors and conventional means of broadcasting which, although a nice idea, has its drawbacks.
Ken Bruce remains most popular UK radio host as mid-morning trend (Gordon): Well, we're sorry to tell you that due to the severe weather conditions and the fact that we are shipping quite a lot of water, we are closing down, and the crew are at this stage leaving the ship.
Daily Mail article about Radio Caroline - 29 September 2021 It was claimed in 1964 by Caroline's manager that they had a larger audience than the BBC. Lodge hired new DJs and introduced free-form programming.
Live listening figures revealed with 34.51m tuning in to BBC Radio each Caroline launched the programme in 2015 with a new team in London who have now taken the programme onto London DAB digital radio in the UK. The drop can be partly explained by lower. Two aerials and twin transmitters were used for about six weeks until the aerial mast failed. I was extremely excited about the new station and borrowed a big transistor radio from my grandmother, so that I could take the music everywhere I went. Caroline Archive Hour. One of Radio Caroline's directors, Major Oliver Smedley, formerly of Radio Atlanta, entered a partnership with Radio City's owner, pop group manager Reginald Calvert and installed a more powerful transmitter on the fort. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. Listening Statistics: 23 Facts You Need to Hear. Currently they also broadcast on DAB radio in certain areas of the UK: these services are part of the Ofcom small-scale DAB+ trials. Radio Caroline is a British station from London. When we started our series to commemorate the forty years of Radio Caroline, we asked the readers to write down their memories of the station in just a few lines. Radio Caroline Continuous Caroline Music Shows Adrian Skirrow London, United Kingdom Alan Watts Alan Watts has been one of the trusty side-kicks to radio god Bob Harris for the past ten years including stints at GLR in 1994, moving on with Bob to Thames Valley FM and of course since 1997 at BBC Radio 2. Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. Myriad factors contribute to the audience curve for radio . One 5kW transmitter was initially not serviceable. When Laser returned as Laser Hot Hits, it used Caroline's former and inferior frequency of 576kHz. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline, Mom who lost both sons to fentanyl blasts laughing Biden, Two Russian tanks annihilated with bombs by Ukrainian armed forces, Isabel Oakeshott receives 'menacing' message from Matt Hancock, Pavement where disabled woman gestured at cyclist before fatal crash, Pro-Ukrainian drone lands on Russian spy planes exposing location, 'Buster is next!' [53] This ended on 1 July 2011 after a failure to renegotiate costs with Sky and deciding not to pursue a Freesat EPG slot.
Ofcom agrees for Radio Caroline to turn up the power BBC Radio 2 to air special show for Tony Blackburn's 80th birthday. He announced towards the end of the programme that it was his last show because he had accepted an offer to become programme controller of RNI! Discover the history of the three RAJAR contracts, and understand the review of methods and sampling and fieldwork events timeline. ", Also Philip Coleman was selected to be a part of this chapter: "I do not think my Caroline memories deserve to be mentioned in the Caroline's special, but there are two which may be of interest to you: First, on September 30, 1972, I was a student with a part-time job. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. (i) 963 kHz: unformatted free-choice album format, with news. So far, Mazzoli's greatest success has come in the opera house. By September 28, 1964 just six months after launching the station's then-manager boasted in the Daily Mail of having an audience bigger than the all-powerful and well-established BBC. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. [35], The Ross Revenge was larger than Mi Amigo and with more elaborate transmitting equipment: in 1983, two 5kW RCA transmitters and a RCA 50kW unit. I did not succeed in getting things right every day, but I certainly felt good every time I heard the famous Caroline bell going "Ding, Ding," followed by the opening tune from those days: "On My Way Back Home" from The New Riders on the Purple Sage. Using land-based studios leased in Kent[51] in the late 1990s, the station began broadcasting via satellites Astra 19.2E and Eutelsat 28A, covering western Europe. After the MOB became law on August 15, 1967, we had to wait a long time for new offshore radio stations to arrive although we did have our Caroline stations up till March 1968. [39] Caroline returned to the air using a makeshift aerial with a less powerful signal. On the heels of Breaking the Waves, she (along with Jeanine Tesori) was the first woman to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. "Why do we have to pay, why aren't they out at sea, the music's no good," and so on. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. [clarification needed]. American Cancer Society 2022-2024. .
Walgreens Nixes Abortion Pill in 20 Red States After Warning - Bloomberg No, I did buy records which were also nice and were brought to my ears by listening to Radio Caroline quite other music than the other stations were offering. Clive Garrard. I can clearly recall "Pushover" by Etta James and "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" by Betty Everett being two of the tracks. Caroline really got more and more attention after August 31, 1974, when the other offshore stations off the Dutch coast had to stop their transmissions, while Radio Caroline survived to please its listeners. Gradually Caroline is fighting its way back and I'm sure that once advertising is coming in, there will be no need for listener donations. Officially, Radio Caroline was managed from offices in North America, with advertising from the US and Canada. Obviously, we hope to be back with you as soon as possible, but just for the moment we would like to say goodbye.
How to listen to Boom - Boom Radio Radio Caroline - The National Archives Caroline returned on 9 March 1977 on 953kHz, actually 315 metres but announced as 319. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. Links would have been to the 603 and the 1242 kHz transmitters as before, but programmes would have taken on a slightly different slant. O'Rahilly and Drummond were inspired by the Danish Radio Mercur, which in 1952 became the first station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. With Face-to-Face recruitment being suspended at the end of March, RAJAR introduced a Tracking Panel to evaluate radio listening during our time in Lockdown. The latest listening figures revealed that the Radio 2 breakfast show audience has fallen to its lowest level for a decade.
Observations and headlines from radio industry RAJAR Q1 2022 From its two vantage points, Radio Caroline's presenters who included future BBC stalwart Tony Blackburn and Tory MP Roger Gale regaled Britons with pop songs which they could only hear on conventional stations for a few hours a week. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. The station restarted in August 1983 from a new radio ship, the MV Ross Revenge, an ex-North Sea factory fishing trawler used during the Anglo-Icelandic Cod War by Ross Fisheries. [46] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[55] and Android[56] devices are also available.
(iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. The highlight however was picking up test transmissions from Radio Caroline I had missed the tests of the previous day. [citation needed]. Following negotiations with the service provider, satellite transmissions ended at midnight on 30 September 2013. The Radio Caroline "album" station has been streamed on the internet for many years, accessible via the station's website, with more streams on various devices. We almost got on board the MEBO II with the assistance of Brian McKenzie but although we went out on the Trip tender the weather was too bad to allow boarding. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:42. [6], Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl "Jimmy" Ross of Ross Foods, and Jocelyn Stevens of Queen magazine, with which Radio Caroline shared its first office. Radio Monique was popular throughout Benelux. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. Radio Atlanta closed at 8p.m. that day. "[61], In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station a community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex on 648kHz with a power of 1kW.[3][62]. [19], Because of the rise of land-based pirate stations after the MOA became law (usually stations run from bedrooms or outdoor sheds with small wattage transmitters), at least two stations later broadcast using the Caroline name, one based in Dublin. Therefore I would like to thank the Monitor Magazine from Benfleet from the later Buster Pearson and the Pirate Radio News team from the Netherlands. 17:31 GMT 28 Sep 2021
Caroline on the App Store Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. Two days later, Mi Amigo was towed to IJmuiden and seized because of unpaid bills. "Other Radio" currently has a weekly listenership of 3.8m adults a week. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. Because commercial radio was prohibited in Belgium, Radio Mi Amigo had little competition from the former BRT State Radio and TV (today VRT Flemisch State radio and TV) and became very popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. The LBC brand. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. Most of Radio Caroline's pop music programmes were targeted at housewives, and some later programming was aimed at children. At times, a 10kW transmitter was used to save fuel and relieve the generators. Bubblegum Lemonade released "Caroline's Radio" in 2010 which was a nostalgic look back at listening to Radio Caroline. ".
Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune - media Dave Foster. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MVJeanine.[6]. Four studios were on board, enabling other broadcasting services. I don't think Grandma saw her radio again till I managed to get a small tranny of my own to replace it. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. 1980s: The Mi Amigo "Top 50" tapes were flown over by helicopter to get them on board more quickly. It was renamed Radio Caroline South and MV Mi Amigo remained off Frinton-on-Sea while MV Caroline broadcast as Radio Caroline North. The ship has working radio studios, from which both Caroline and BBC Essex have broadcast. Ray Clark) and Rob Charles. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. 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Programmes were presented by current and former DJs from the BBC, ILR, Ireland, Luxembourg, offshore and land-based pirate stations, and other international and freelance backgrounds, including Tony Prince and Emperor Rosko. Tenders and boat owners were warned, and some were prosecuted for ferrying staff and provisions to the ship. I remember Caroline North with great affection. On 30 August 1974 Mi Amigo moved from the Dutch coast to the Knock Deep Channel, approximately 12 miles (19km) from the British coast. Zoe Ball lost a million listeners from the same period last year, when . I am taking a career break from my profession as a Sollicitor and in 2001 was fortunate to be allowed to run the news service from the Mi Amigo RSL from the LV18 where I met Bart Serlier among many others. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. Caroline's album format meant that, although the station served a gap in the market, its audience was smaller than in the 1960s. Encouraged by Scandinavian and Dutch radio pirates, in February 1964 O'Rahilly obtained the 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry Fredericia, launched in Frederikshavn in 1929,[5] which was converted into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, owned by O'Rahilly's father. It left Spain, with an incomplete studio, to avoid legal entanglements. The four-week event was funded through on-air local business commercials. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Insane moment river of rocks falls onto Malibu Canyon in CA, Fleet-footed cop chases an offender riding a scooter, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up.